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That would be one of the issues it raises, yes. Does ROB intervene if I set up a simple machine where pushing a button kills literally everyone? What if it samples a whole lot of data to determine if it should kill everyone, but the results of that data check are exceedingly obvious? (I.e. 'Is...

Uh huh... But in the context of this scenario, He is directly intervening to contravene free will. It's that contradiction that raises theological difficulties.

Yeah, and one could also argue that the holocaust was less bad than it could have been, He nudged people's minds so only two cities were destroyed in atomic fire... It's that, in this one case, He has acted directly, clearly and physically. There's no gentle guiding hand, no clever influencing...

Yes, but he didn't stop the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima or the holocaust, he was cool with the crusades and the black death. If He intervenes so directly, but only in this one thing, that's... Well, to my mind at least, not good.

The entire world devolves into existential crisis. An undoubtable mirace just occurred. Swords were turned to ploughshares, or more accurately, nothing. It was witnessed by every major news agency, and the intelligence apparatus of every government. It was recorded in every spectra, by so many...